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1 Brandon Martinez Word Count: 1,253 August 25, 2010 (NO TITLE) 16 years since inception. Been locked down in the department of correction entered the prison gate. Had no idea what would be my fate. Slangin the rocks from the triple beam. Was just a young buck having fun. Didnt realize what the cost of packing a gun. As I heard the iron gates rattle. Prepared for every twist and turn of the battle. For a life sentence surely I was doomed living in obscurity in a cocoon. Would I lose my mind. ...

--~\lfmli116Jrf*wMim~bttllCrD by Ronald Marshall 0 nly time will reveal whether the 20 14 Legislative Session will mark a sincere effort by Louisiana's lawmakers to reform sentencing laws so that offenders can have a meaningful opportunity to get off the count. At the behest of the Jindal administration, four organizations joined in a collective effort to analyze criminal justice data/ statistics and offer options to assist Louisiana lawmakers in reducing the prison population and correc...

2nd Class Citizens Assert 1st Amendment Rights Col. Writ. 11/14/14 Copyright Bryant Arroyo In the dead of the night Gov. Tom Corbett huddled with the choir of the legislature and the rest of his cronies (FOP) whom introduced an invidious, unconstitutional 'Chilling Effect' tantamount to a 'civil choke hold.' Gov. Corbett signed both HB2533 & SB508 on Oct. 3, 2014, which is legally unprecedented and has far-reaching implications that specifically targets and impacts for...

A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE COLORADO DEPT . OF CORRECTIONS AND POOR DRUG OFFENDER REFORM by: Stephan Darris While incarcerated in the state of Colorado I think it' s fair to say that your past dictates your future . I am not a lifer or a violent offe nder. I am a repeat drug offender that has witnessed some of the most vile atrocity ' s that the system can deliver. I think that most people in this institution live under propaganda, false hope, and make believe promises. It ...

--"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buckfiVe soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelibte imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning fro...

A Practical Approach to Prison Reform As we progress further into the twenty-first century, one thing is clear: serious changes need to be made to the American prison system. America has become a society with the highest incarceration rate of any nation in the world. And with well over two million men and women in America's prisons, there are more people incarcerated in the United States than any other country. In an age of record budget deficits and massive national debt, it would appea...

A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...

A Vision For the Future By Mick Whitlock As the steel door slammed shut behind me, I realized that a new chapter in my life was about to begin. And though the uncertainties about my life and my future seemed enormous, deep in my heart I knew that I would be going to prison. My feelings of helplessness were overwhelming. What the future held for my young family was unclear. As my mind drifted between memories of the past and thoughts of what might have been, feelings of helplessness began to c...

appeal to families to help incarcerated individuals take measures to leave prison

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- Seventeen years ago, I arrived in Angola. I was assigned bed 43, next to an aging, frail prisoner who had been incarcerated longer than the 23 years I had been living. One day he said to me, "Youngsta, if you have family, don't waste their time and resources on bullshit. Doing time in prison is not for any one." Basically, he was telling me to use my family for one purpose: to assist in my struggles to regain freedom. In order to do so, I had to educate myself to educate my f...

NO TITLE Brandon Martinez, California Aug 17, 10 Anger is such a vicious lil seed that can wreck havoc in any given situation. If you allow it to spring fourth. Theyll come a point of no return. In the heat of the moment theyll be no turning back. With your mind in a stage of rage. It often becomes too difficult to process anything by that viciousness. Lord have mercy. One episode, one scenario will be all it will take. The such tragic atrocities that will have become as a result of anger. Th...

Bill HB-2386 by Christopher Balmer GX-5754, SCI Forest In the summer 20 14 Correctional Forum, Bill HB-2386 (submitted by Rep. T .. Stephens, R.-Montgomery County). was printed for people to see. Happily the Prison Society opposes such a Bill. Rep. T . Stephens attempted to have a bill passed that would garnish at/east 25% of wages prisoners make working in prison, and 75% of all deposits made to an inmate's personal account. Apparently, Rep. T. Stephens doesn' t understand prison e...

Celldweller Journal: "Fractured mirror of society" (Publish) Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari VI date: 8-15-13 "Black August" (Entry fifteen) After being captured and convicted, Essay's I've been engaged in the adventure's of trying to understand how this world really truly works, every since -- being enrolled into California's Institutions of 'higher education'. Where my re-educational' journey first began at. We can all get an education at a ...

Levert III (Sekou) Brookshire Arizona Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16 This degeneration, that I describe to you, Eventually leads us to their social garbage disposal system, They Have created for disposing of their 'expendable', 'non-contributing', 'non-voting', 'non-tax-paying' citizen's. Converting us into 'Livestock', 'cattle' herds, charging the taxpayers, 40k a head, for our upkeep and main...

Celldweller Journal; "Fractured mirror of society" 'Publish' Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-17-13 "Black August" (Entry seventeen) Each and every one of us, cell dweller's has a personal and unique story to tell. In light of everything that I've said here in, my translation or interpretation of the black male's experience. Here inside these pages, I only attempt to lay-out the heart of the problems, and my understanding of the answers. There wi...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 267 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-7-13 Celldweller Journal: "I Lost it all, but Found Myself" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Seven) Nobody sets-out, 'planning' to fail at what they do, yet we often set-out 'failing' to plan what we do? The consequences for that, can singlehandedly cost us our lives, or freedom, and all of our possessions, even those we lack. What I've learned is, ...

1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 171 Celldweller Journal: “Man Cannot Live by Words Alone” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry One) I pick-up this ink-pen & paper, I become truly ‘free’, nothing limit’s me, restrict’s me or contains me. I rule this ‘dominion’. It can take me anywhere my mind will guide-it, it’s the one place that I become the true ‘master of my fate’ and the ‘captain of my destiny’. No matter the status assigned to me by the status quo. When, I am depositing ...

Being a 'Celldweller University' alumni has been from, the 'beginning' and always will be a constructive, positive, alternative to the usual 'corrossive'; negative mindset, that permeates the prison environment. For years I walked these yards and looked at all these faces, contorted, twisted and full of anger. Everyday men, fighting and rioting, causing harm to each other, conflicting and competing for mere crumbs out of desperation. Prisoners 'sinking'...

We often 'think' we can control our future, even when we are swimming 'upstream' against the current. But, whenever we 'clear' our heads, detox our body's, get our 'thinking' back in-order, we start to 'float' along with current of life, effortlessly. 'Black August' gives me time to remind myself, about, my own personal power to gain balance again, re-gain physical, mental and emotional health again. Through fasting it makes me,...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 347 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-9-13 Celldweller Journal: "The Royal Game" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Nine) Whenever I'm asked, what are my plans for the future, or more specifically, what are my plans for when I get released from prison? My answer is always's strange for the person asking the question. Because they pause, and look at me puzzeled. "When I tell them...